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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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  • Prisms
  • Steam baths
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Photo detectors
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Reflux condensers
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Claisen flasks
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Bunsen burners
  • Comparators
  • Nebulizers
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Agitation tanks
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Finger pumps
  • Pirani gauges
  • Ammeters
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Glass tubing
  • Westphal balances
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Lecture bottles
  • Fluorimeters
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Homogenizers
  • Reaction flasks
  • Test tube clamps
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Monochromators
  • Polarizers
  • Cork borer sets
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Polarimeters
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Ruby lasers
  • Pressure gauges
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Meker burners
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Capillary tubing
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Cooling baths
  • Radiation detectors
  • Dye lasers
  • Safety showers
  • Graphing calculators
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Multimeters
  • Metering pumps
  • Gas burners
  • Turbidimeters
  • Lyophilizers
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Sample crushers
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Molecular stills
  • Voltmeters
  • Utility clamps
  • Pycnometers
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Rotameters
  • Bell jars
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Ionization gauges
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Safety gloves
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Rheometers
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Mercury barometers
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Torsion balances
  • Pull spring balances
  • Filter pumps
  • Velometers
  • Autotitrators
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Safety goggles
  • Aneroid barometers
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Desktop computers
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Coulometers
  • Face shields
  • U-tube manometers
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Single-pan balances
  • Infrared lamps
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Tension gauges
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Personal computers
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Dessicators
  • Immersion heaters
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Canister gas masks
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Water aspirators
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Automatic burets
  • Heating mantles
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Flame photometers
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Titrators
  • Ball mills
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Photocells
  • Glass burets
  • Safety glasses
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • McLeod gauges
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Hydrometers
  • Laboratory balances
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Thermocouples
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Drying pistols
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Triple beam balances
  • Distilling condensers
  • Differential refractometers
  • Viscosity meters
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Laboratory tongs
  • pH indicators
  • Buchner funnels
  • Lasers
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Mainframe computers
  • Electronic toploading balances

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